The Weekend Spill: Fave Photo Of The Day: Gerberg & Booth; Thurber’s Art Celebrated!; The Tilley Watch Online; Event Of Interest: Roz Chast

Fave Photo Of The Day Courtesy of Sarah Booth, this fab photo of New Yorker artists Mort Gerberg and George Booth, taken this past Friday following Mr. Gerberg’s gig playing Cole Porter’s piano at The New York Historical Society. Mr. Gerberg began contributing to The New Yorker in 1965. Mr. Booth began contributing to The New Yorker in 1969. ________________________________

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The Monday Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of August 19, 2019; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Sara Lautman’s Daily Shouts

The Cover: Kara Walker’s early release Toni Morrison cover was mentioned here previously. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Good to see Tom Bachtell‘s fab “Spots” work this week…As you can see, there’s another duo effort from Pia Guerra and her husband, Ian Boothby…No Newbie (or Newbies) this week…Cartoon placement (sizing) in this issue: a few look just right (Bruce Kaplan‘s fun

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The Tilley Watch Online, June 17-21, 2019; Book On The Horizon: Shannon Wheeler’s Mueller Report

A Weekend Roundup of New Yorker Cartoonists Whose Work Appeared on Daily Shouts or The Daily Cartoon The Daily Cartoon: Avi Steinberg, Tim Hamilton, Farley Katz, Kendra Allenby, and J.A.K. Daily Shouts: Sara Lautman, and Olivia de Recat with Julia Edelman. See all of the above and more here. ___________________________________________________________________________________ News of this Spring 2020 release from IDW, The Mueller

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Two Peacocks Walk Into A Room; Rare Book Of Interest: A John M. Price Cartoon Anthology: Sara Lautman’s Daily Shouts; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Avi Steinberg

In one of those million-to-one cartoon moments, both my colleague Harry Bliss (with his collaborator Steve Martin) and I have similar drawings out this week (his in his syndicated daily spot, and mine in The New Yorker). What’s unusual, besides the timing of publication, and the peacock standing in a doorway in both drawings, is the use of the peacock

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